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D.I.D....

Wanting to know if there's anyone else in this group caring for someone with D.I.D.?

We've got a family member with a very "crowded" internal world of multiple personalities. This goes along with compulsive behaviours, phobias, social anxiety, derealisation and other difficulties. The person in question sees medical and psychological practitioners regularly; it's a disorder that apparently doesn't respond to medication, and they have previously reacted badly to medications that have been trialled; I'm seeing a psychologist regularly myself to deal with the pressure and get some feedback/backup. I have a supportive husband and family, but otherwise it's hard to know how to or who to talk with about what's going on. It's an uncommon enough disorder that you have to explain an awful lot about it before a conversation can even really start, and then you run into dangerous ground regarding the privacy of the person in question.

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Checking in @Smc

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Yeah... bit so-so @Former-Member.

Older Daughter seems to be holding steady, but we had a scare with Hubby on Sunday.


Final stages of pack up from our weekend event, he suddenly got a shot of pain across his chest and up into his neck and shoulders. We went to the nearest hospital, all his vitals looked good, but they don't take chances with anything resembling a heart attack. They can do a blood test which shows enzyme changes associated with heart attact, a baseline at admission, then 6 hours later another to see if it's risen. Second test was all good, so he was discharged at 1-2 am. Some friends from the event have a minibus camper van, so they provided our accomodation and transport all in one for the night.

I did my usual thing of calm, collected, strategising and ticking the boxes at the time, and I'm in the "payback" recovery stage at the moment. 😕 So glad all was well, pain was probably anxiety related, but oooh, we could have done without that.

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@Smc

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@Smc ...

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Checking in @Smc

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Thinking of you here also @Smc

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I is here @Former-Member!

Back from a weekend at a church camp. A bit of an odd time. Hubby and I were a bit too stressed and tired to get a lot out of it, but Younger Daughter enjoyed it. That counts for a lot.

Older Daughter and Older Son were also there. I think they enjoyed it too, Older Daughter had one of her "persona switch" moments while we were at the beach. We picked it, not sure it was too obvious to the young friend who was with us. (Hoping not.)

Found one of the study sessions a bit hard to take. I ended up outside having a few private tears, Hubby was close to doing likewise. It was based on a series of what I guess you could call spiritual personality profiles. Am not good with things like that; too burnt out by a "caring" role that's taken me beyond the point where its got joy in it, which means I have little left over for the more general "caring" actions I've found fulfilling in the past. That, plus the fact that categorising people into type 1/2/3/4/etc. always leaves me at a loss anyway. I do "me", and am not good with boxes.
Older Daughter has her interview panel meeting tomorrow to see if she can get a place in the supported accomodation units. So we may know by later in the day, or they may take a few days to get back to her. Will see what comes. Quarantined items has meant that there's been no SH that we know of since that was brought in, and if appropriate, we'll be suggesting that an environment that's psychologically and theraputically supportive might help her continue to make progress against the urge to SH.

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(Hi @Determined and @Faith-and-Hope ).

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Hi @Smc 👋

Thought I had responded here earlier ..... but it was the support button methinks.

Hugs ❣️

Thonking of tou lots.....

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Panel hearing has been and gone, and Older Daughter will hear back on the decision over the next couple of days.

We're waiting on the verdict from a local hand therapists appointment which happens Wednesday, to find out whether we'll need to make the long drive down for another follow up at the hospital where she had the tendon surgery done, scheduled for Thursday... we're very much hoping she gets the "all clear". Neither of us are much up to a trip that will take all day.

I've felt so tired today, but duh, big weekend followed up with today's meeting. And a couple of snake scares over the past day too. (A young Tiger Snake hanging around near the animal pens/back corner of the house. We're hoping it's even more keen on avoiding us. They're high on the venomous scale, but thankfully are low on the aggression/company seeking scale.)

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